Music Out of the Moon
Music Out of the Moon is a music album released in 1947. 's Compositions Harry Revel played by Samuel Hoffman on the Theremin, which is accompanied by a run by Les Baxter Ensemble. The arrangements are from Les Baxter, who thus landed his first hit. The album was released by Capitol Records.
The album, with the original in the edition three shellac discs were combined, should the planning by a cult hit are, who addressed a specific open and young audience. On the cover of a scantily clad woman sprawled, startling for its time, on the lunar surface, it had the cover inscription Music Unusual Featuring the Theremin - Themes by Harry Revel. Though exact sales figures are known, the sales were high enough to be raving newspapers of the " best-selling Capitol - plate " of all time ..
Music Out of the Moon was one of two music albums that Neil Armstrong took on the Apollo 11 mission. The astronauts had a tape recorder going and Armstrong From the New World took a shot again of Music Out of the Moon next to the Dvořák symphony.
The album, which was published in 1950 as a vinyl LP, consists of six pieces with names like Lunar Rhapsody, Celestial Nocturne or radar blues.
It is a pioneer of the album Exotica / Space Age Pop, and was a blueprint on which albums and soundtracks for the next ten years based. Revell / Baxter used Latin American rhythms, a choir that sang no words but only single vowels, a large orchestra with harp, which provides a full, harmonious background sound. This contrasts a single electronic instrument - the theremin here - that was the same in the beginning of the Space Age, a reference to technology and its future potential.
In 1999, the album was re-released along with two other Hoffman / Revel albums ( Perfume Set to Music and Music for the Peace of Mind in a 3- CD box.